Jeremy Jacobs: ‘Welcome home Lord Stanley’

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With the sun breaking through the clouds and basking hundreds of thousands in the afterglow of the city’s first Stanley Cup[1] in 39 years, Boston kicked off another “Rolling Rally” Saturday morning in the parking lot outside TD Garden.

“Lord Stanley, 39 years, welcome home!” exclaimed Bruins owner Jeremy Jacobs, one of the first to speak before the duck boats began their three-mile procession from the Garden to Copley Square.

Boston City police termed Saturday’s rally the biggest in the city’s rich sports history, eclipsing even the 2004 Red Sox[2] rally in the rain on Oct. 30, 2004, with well over a million people lined up between 10-15 deep in many areas along the route.

“We got the Cup! We got the Cup!” added Patrice Bergeron[3], whose two goals in Game 7 led the Bruins to a Cup-clinching 4-0 win in Vancouver on Wednesday night. Since then, the organization and city has been looking forward to celebrating the organization’s sixth Stanley Cup with hockey-loving city and region.